Look, I’ll admit I’m new to this blogging malarkey. Yes, I’ve been on the internet for a while but the blogging phenomenen has largely passed me by.
Till now.
We at Kurungabaa decided to get this blog up and running so lately I’ve spent quite a bit of time logging on and checking out what the punters are doing in the far-flung corners of the surfing world. The whole idea of blogging is still novel to me and, as I’m a voyeur at heart, I’ve had a grand time reading all your diaries. So far I’ve concluded that I’m not THAT different to you lot (which is both a disturbing and reassuring find). Different coastlines sure, and sometimes different languages, but our political, ecological and social sentiments are fairly similar.
There is one fundamental difference between us though.
Fish.
Why do most surfing bloggers ride fish? It’s true. So much talk about keel fins, swallow tails, fish fry’s and Skip Frye’s. Go and click on random links on the surfing blogroll and see for yourself. Or better still, look in your board rack…you’ve got one haven’t you? He he…
Anyway, being a curious fella I’ve been trying to establish a link between blogging and fish ownership. Is there an inverse ratio between computer technology and surfboard design? Or perhaps fish are the blogging equivalent of the Freemason’s ring?
Please forward your reasons as there shouldn’t be any secrets among us.
Thank you.
Blogging = fun. Fish = fun. And I set up the blogroll. haha. And I am a fish junkie, as you well know. The secret is it is actually a CONSPIRACY for us to take over the surfing world. Viva La Fish.
But of course!!
Our blogroll has a piscean bias cos you set it up!
And here I was mystified why ALL surf bloggers rode fish and how I was ever gonna get accepted with my bog standard thrusters. What a relief.
Quick bit of advice Sir Clif: it’s hard to overtake the surfing world when you’re watching the rear-vision mirror.
All the high perfomance guys are too busy ripping to find time to blog
Fish is soooo… early 2000! A modern blogger should only ride olos and alaias!!!
Niegà
^^^He he he…and what will the modern bloggers be riding in 2009 Niega? Rafts made from bamboo and reeds? Probably ride as well as a fish…
Flat spells Ricardo. Flat spells. Gotta fill the time somehow and tappin’ the keyboard is as good as any. Actually ‘Flat Spells’ woulda been a great name for a blog! Oh well, too late…
Nice theory anyway.
Stu, I hate to break it to you, but it is not 1981 anymore. Pat Benatar is no longer number 1 on the Top 100. The thruster is no longer new, it is too, the past. Poor Stu, getting old before his time. But us ‘postmodern’ surfers, we know what is going on …
haha.
you boys with your poisonous wasteful toys will be outlaws in ten years’ time. look far enough into the future with glassy bloodshot eyes and you’ll see clearly that it’s already time to grow fins and get back to the water again. i advise using driftwood and boards washed up on rocks after storms in the meantime, and maybe buying the odd secondhand board to share with friends on special occasions.
Hey Al you make the future sound like Gilligans Island and being a kid all over, in kinda nice way.
I remember as a grommet guys talking about the future petrochemical crisis and the need to have boards stashed up and down the coast – even buried for a rainy day.
ah conspiracy! I suspected some evil genius had masterminded this elaborate ruse with ulterior designs upon plan shapes and fin settings
i haven’t ridden my fish for while (confession) the waves have been too good (not meant as a provocation) what about an issue on July – jewel of the east coast calendar, this new low is bombing, sheet the waves on dark tonight are crankin.
neiga, i have not ridden an alaias (am a postcolonial blogger though), but one of the crew where I live harley Ingleby pulled his out the other day and was wailing on it. pumping down the line, full slides -even round house cutties, pretty amazing for a thin slab of wood with the soul of the ancients.
yeh stu bloggers and fish riders are the queer future.
‘the future is already here just unevenly distribute’ William Gibson.
pretty much like the past already here just unevenly distributed plenty of work to do
Dunno Stu, i ride my fish less and less these days. And as for planks of wood… i’m not that hip!
Niegà